Monday, 21 April 2008

The most talented two, Nadia and Jay, was disappointing. Ringo was average. Hanis the Manis showed good promise. What surprised me the most was that the worst performers from previous shoots bounced back with a vengeance: Cindy and Adeline looked brilliantly stunning. And Adeline looked like Paris Hilton in the Escada video shoot!

Over the weekend, I was invited by IDC to speak at their Directions 08 Conference in Singapore.

IDC is a huge international marketing research group much like AC Nielsen, and their Directions 08 conference was one of their bigger events where delegates from Dell, HP, Microsoft, etc reportedly paid some SGD$680 each just to attend this one-day conference!

Goodness! The only time I would pay THAT much money to attend a conference is if Mariah Carey is the speaker and I get to Touch Her Body afterwards... I mean, LISTEN to her sing 'Touch My Body' afterwards.

Anyway, my purpose on the the conference was as part of a 4-person panel, talking about what us Generation-Y bloggers think about the Internet trends. Joining me on the panel were social media blogger Daryl from Singapore, tech blogger Victor from Hong Kong and sex blogger Meenakshi from India.

Our panel session lasted for 35 minutes, and I think I spoke for a grand total of only like just 10 minutes.

The coolest thing about speaking at a large-scale conference like this is that these people fly you in and let you stay at some super expensive swanky 5-star hotel that I would never be able afford on my own.

The even cooler thing is that sometimes these hotel rooms are all booked out. When that happens they automatically upgrade you to a suite.

Yes, a friggin' SUITE!

Complete with separate living room and bedroom!

Damn nice marbled bathroom with a jacuzzi!

What more?

They even gave us not one, but TWO RUBBER DUCKIES in the bathtub!

OMG.

Of course I was excited! Not everyday I get to play with rubber duckies.

Oh, and also get to stay at a suite in the Grand Copthrone Hotel in Singapore, just for talking 10 minutes about blogging. :P

i comment earlier before finish reading the entry coz i want to be the first commenter. *sheepish* lol. anyways, im an indonesian whos been in US for almost 8 yrs, and OMG it's been sooooo long since ive seen a bottle of AQUA. barely even remember it exists......kinda makes me miss indo. *sniff*

kenny! how can u say cindy's batik couture pix is nice??? =_=! her face again totally expressionless and whereas everyone else tries to show of their dress, she just stands there and lets the assistants flip her dress for her... =_="

the best ones were hanis n nadia's laaaaaa.....

AND i cannot stand cindy in episode 13 (isit ep. 13?), where you and the other few guys went over for dinner! omg....she acts like she's never seen a guy in her entire life! or is it because she stuck in the dreamhouse that she is so desperate now? =_=! the way she swoons over JP just makes me sick man...

Aqua is actually the first and also the most famous brand for mineral water in Indonesia. That is why no matter what brand it is, Indonesian people called mineral water as Aqua as the word Aqua has become general term for mineral water in Indonesia. The word aqua itself is actually a Latin word means water.

Kenny Sia... my mom think i'm crazy for checking out your blog daily... so she asked me to tag u in my blog... and then, she taught me how to call u ka na sai cause she really look like one in MDG... great job.....in MDG

Haha yeah I totally get that, we Indonesians think that the only brand of bottled water that exists in the market is Aqua. That was before I came to Singapore where there are too many brands of water to be bothered anymore that is..

Water is called 'Aqua' or 'A gua' in Indonesia. Try order 'mineral water' or 'air sejuk/panas' in Indonesia, they won't understand you. Majority drinks mineral water by the brand 'Aqua' in Indonesia, that's why water is called Aqua there.

Only the really really poor ones boil water from tap. I remembered asking for kettle to boil water from hotel recep and they were laughing at me. Ordered 'air suam' or 'air sejuk' or 'air mineral' from hotel cafe and they don't understand me. After that i found out that they call water 'Aqua'

Ohh..Aqua..yesh, like some comments given above, Indonesian are just used to use the word "Aqua" to refer to mineral water.

No matter how many brands of mineral water exist, they keep on saying 'Aqua'
So..someone who sells mineral water (gallon packaging) here always have to re-confirmed buyers like :
'Do you want the brand Aqua or another brand?' just to make sure.

Kenny, is that really stickgal? She doesn't seem to be the kinda girl who will hv all kinds of trouble in her relationship as shown in the blog?! she's so hot and cute man! what's with the guys around him (Aahahha.. except KennySia) ?

i've never been here to comment like to say go on blogging kenny, but this time i would. i know you've said once that u blog only at most twice a week but i open your page everyday without fail. I cant wait for more of your posts! It's like an addiction already. Can you post more than just twice a week? like maybe 4? please pretty please!

It's nice to read your blog. Even certain adverts are nice. If only you could lessen down the adverts, you'll be just perfect.

FYI,sometime hotel decided to updg the guest to a suite room not because they r FULL....when the hotel occupancy allow and they CONSIDER u as their VVIP, then the mgmt team will decide to upgrade your room to a suite..so if u got a suite,most probably because u r the VVVIP for them....